5. Conclusion

The OBI standard provides a general system architecture and message protocol to enable smooth business-to-business e-Commerce transactions to be conducted on the Internet. We designed and implemented our OBI/SELL server and OBI/BUY server as add-on components on top of an existing merchant server, namely Net.Commerce, to facilitate OBI transactions. Our OBI solution was successfully demonstrated at the OBI Action Showcase in the ICE EXPO'98 in Los Angles for both its functionality and inter-operability with all other participating vendors, including other major players like EPIC, Microsoft, and Netscape etc. A first OBI/SELL pilot was also successfully demonstrated with SciQuest Inc.